Tolkien used ''Ȝ'' in ''[[The Etymologies]]'' to describe the sound ''gh''. The ''Ȝ'' is seen most often in [[Primitive Quendian]] [[root]]s such as [[MAȜ]], [[KUȜ]], [[TEȜ]]. This sound however was assimilated to other sounds.

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Tolkien used ''Ȝ'' in ''[[The Etymologies]]'' to describe the sound ''gh''. The ''Ȝ'' is seen most often in [[Primitive Quendian]] [[Sundocarmë|Root]]s such as [[MAȜ]], [[KUȜ]], [[TEȜ]]. This sound however was assimilated to other sounds.

Before unvoiced consonants it would evolve into ''ch'': ''[[maȝtâ]]'' ([[MAȜ]]) evolved to [[Common Eldarin]] ''machtâ''.

Before unvoiced consonants it would evolve into ''ch'': ''[[maȝtâ]]'' ([[MAȜ]]) evolved to [[Common Eldarin]] ''machtâ''.

The sound gh would return once more in Elvish. Like in the case of English, Primitive Quendian g was simplified to gh in Quenya (and Sindarin, in most cases). For example the word galadâ "tree" evolved into *ghaldâ/ȝaldâ in the Quenyan branch.

Once more, the gh sound could be heard in Elvish, and it survived long enough to be written in Sarati before disappearing again. The word alda was still spelt ȝalda with the letter ' representing gh. It was known by tradition among the loremasters[1]

When gh was lost once more, the Sarat ' was eventually used for a carrier. It was inherited as a carrier in the Tengwar and later was replaced by the letter Anna, to indicate an assuming “vanished” gh wherever words begun with a vowel.

This usage tried to explain the relation of words between Noldorin words starting with a vowel where Telerin had g- (cf. Quenya alda vs. Teleringalla), but did not explain all the cases of words without an initial consonant (alca, according to this, should be spelled *hDjaE